It wasn't a tweak the councillors urged the developer to add another 5 floors! Both officers and councillors ignored the fact that this site was and still is outside the area in Haringey where any buildings above ten floors are strictly prohibited. But planning in Haringey has long been an alternative reality.

There are two kebab shops at the bottom of Turnpike Lane, I went for a lunchtime kebab in one about two weeks ago, I was the only customer in there. I tried the other one at lunchtime last week, I was the only customer in that one. Now we are getting another one, the story of El Dorado (the more gold the Spanish mined, the more it devalued) must be repeating itself, many younger people are shunning meat, now the 'golden goose' has been killed, I can see them starting to close, as did the Indian restaurants in the same circumstances. Can any residents in the flats above the shops anywhere in the High Road or Green Lanes open a window for air without the 24/7 stench and leaden-blue haze of charcoal and burnt meat wafting in?, it would turn me from a red-blooded carnivore into a vegan.

Because noone goes to kebab shops at lunch time usually ;) Yes, they are opening another one on the high road, same as they opened another off licence shop nearby...thinking that 3 kebab shops and 2 off licence shops near TL is not enough. We'll see.